Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

O. E. LEWIS.

BOOT 0R SHOE.

No. 270,596. lPatented Jan. 16,1883.

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BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,596, dated January 16, 1883.

Application filed April 10,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORLANDO E. LEWIS, of Columbus, count-y of Franklin, State of Ollio, have invented an Improvement in Boots or Shoesof which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a speciication.

My present invention is an improvement on United States Letters Patent No. 237,396, granted to me February 8,1881, to which reference may be had, and has for its object to make a stronger and more serviceable boot or shoe of that class wherein the margin of the fore part of the upper is turned outward and stitched to the sole.

My invention consists in a boot or shoe having the outwardly-turned margin of its upper, about the fore part thereof', sunk and stitched down closely into a channel made in the foundation-sole about its fore part, a part of the said sole being extended or anged, as shown, to have made in it'the said channel and to serve as a welt, the edge ofthe said sole about its fore part, and preferablyalso the outwardlyturned margin ot' the fore part of theupper, being subsequently united by an independent row of sole-fastenings.

Figure 1 represents in cross-section a boot or shoe made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, atop viewofone ofmy channeled foundation-soles, and Fig. 3 a cross-section of it.

The foundation-sole a, against which the stocking rests, is provided about its fore part with a ange, b, of greater or less width, according to thedistance it is desired that the sole-edgeproject beyondtheupper. Theange b is grooved or channeled at o, leaving a shoulder, 2, which is preferably extended somewhat above the level of the said sole at its center. In my patent referred to I employed a sole with this ange; but the flange was not channeled. In that patent the quarter and upper about the heel and shank of the sole hadtheir edges turned inward under the heel andshank of the sole; but about the fore part the outwardly-turned upper was stitched directly upon the plane unchanneled top of the sole, and the stitches connecting the fore part of the upper with the said sole and the outersole about the fore part of the upper were made through and through the outwardly-turned upper, foundation-sole, and outer sole.

In my present invention I prefer to have the boot or shoe at the heel and shank made as in my said patent; but at the fore part, the upper being on the last,l place the outwardlyturned margin of the upper above the channel c and stitch the same to the foundationsole a by stitches e, the latter bending and drawing the upper down into the said groove or'channel, as shown, against the shoulder 2, which is thus interposed, as it were, between the foot .and the said line of stitches, so that, were it possible for the seam made by the stitches e to grim the spaces or openings would not lead directly to the foot or stocking.

A'llo apply the outer sole,f, itis laid upon the foundation-sole, the latter having been united to the upper, and the outer sole, foundation sole, and preferably the outwardly-turned margin of the upper, are united by a series ofsolcfastenings, g, preferably of wire; but it is obvious that any usual sole-fastening may be employed instead. That part of the foundationsole which is extended outwardly beyond the line of stitches e serves fully the purposes of a welt.

To give greatest durability to the boot or shoe and lessen the liability of dampness and dust entering between the upper and foundation-sole at the series of stitches e, it is best to extend the sole-fastenings g through the outwardly-turned upper, and so, also, the extension of the upper outward to receive the fastenings g gives a better nish to the boot or shoe.

The fastenings g may, if desired, be buried or clinched in a channel at the outer face of the outer sole,f. y

I have herein shown the outer sole and in ner or foundation sole united about the fore part by means of a series of driven metal fastcnings; but I do not herein broadly claim such, as that feature is made the subject of claim in my application No. 68,808, tiled August 8, 1882.

I claimt The foundation-sole a, provided about its fore part with the channeled iiange, and the upper having its marginal edges turned ontt0 this specification in the presence of two subwnrd and secured in the channel of the said scribing Witnesses.

Hanne by stitches e combined with the outer T i solebunted to the said foundation-sole by a. ORLABDO D' LEWIS' 5 series of sole-fastenings, g, substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. G. W. GREGORY,

Intestmony whereof 1 have signed my name NV. H. SIGsTON. 

